They Shot the Piano Player (2024)
Spanish director Fernando Truaba is one of those [...]
Archive for March, 2012
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2012)
Just in case you were wondering, there is no salmon fishing in Yemen. That’s the whole point of Lasse Hallstrom’s twee British comedy Salmon Fishing in the Yemen about the insanity of a project between the British and Yemini politicians to help build a stream in the middle of the desert in an effort to […]
Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2012)
Some people have a theory that there is no such thing as coincidence; that everything that happens in life happens for one reason or another. Maintaining that state of mind, I would imagine, requires constant frustrating vigilance. You’re always on the lookout for what connects one thing to another. Jeff (Jason Segal), the protagonist of […]
The Hunger Games (2012)
The Hunger Games presents a dystopian future filled with gloom and doom, oppression and despair that is not likely to surprise anyone familiar with those presented in The Terminator, Mad Max, Gattaca, Metropolis, The Running Man, Logan’s Run, Brazil or 1984. Movies rarely, if ever, look into the future and portray how high man can reach. More […]
Losing Control (2012)
Losing Control is one of those worn-out, cutesy-poo romantic comedies that comes off the assembly line of television sitcoms. It doesn’t generate realistic characters, natural dialogue nor believable subject matter. It becomes so desperate for laughs that it provides its heroine with the task of going into a singles bar to find a man for […]
Sound of Noise (2012)
When Sound of Noise ended, I wasn’t entirely sure what to think about it. Here is a film so bizarre, with a plot so daffy that it becomes one of those films that you either embrace or reject. It took me quite some time to figure out where I stand with it, and as of […]
